Tag: Economy

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The modern world has experienced an outburst of blockchain events recently. The hyping popularity of this technology has provided rich ground for fostering new business models and applications of it. The challenge that all ideators seem to face sooner or later is how to implement their ideas on the canvas of governmental and legal aspects. LSBC has met with one of the experts in the area of the blockchain – Marco Houwen, one of the leaders of Infrachain.

Hidden champions are relatively small (often S&MEs), but worldwide successful market-leading companies,.which are not widely known to the public. Their prosperity is explained by niche and often..technological orientation, innovative culture,.customer-centered philosophy, commitment to excellence in their area of operations. In addition, the know-how and expertise of such companies are implicit. This provides for their unique nature of success and, respectively, name.

Slow growth and rising inequality have reached a tipping point in many of the world’s advanced economies. The World Economic Forum’s Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2017lays out strategies for cutting the current vicious cycle of stagnation and polarisation of income and opportunities.

Slovenia’s economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.7% in the second quarter of the year, while working days and seasonally adjusted growth was 1.9%, show the first estimates from the Statistics Office. The overall added value of the Slovenian economy was up by 2.9%.

The amount of office space in Luxembourg reached a record high during the first half of 2016. Within six months, the amount of new offices occupied reached nearly 122,000 m², with Kirchberg seeing the most movement with 32 percent of new occupations of offices.

Slovenia has placed 20th in the latest Social Progress Index (SPI) rankings among the 133 participating countries, which puts it in the first place among the Central and Southeast European countries. In the basic human needs category Slovenia placed 15th(with a score of 93.75), while it placed 23rd in the foundations of well-being category (83.13) and 20th in the opportunity category (75.92).